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English 5575—American Literature since 1914
Syllabus
Schedule
Assignments
Extras
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Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the needs of the class. I will announce any changes to this schedule should the need present itself.
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January 20 |
Introduction—Modernism and its Legacy |
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January 22 |
Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar," "Six Significant Landscapes" |
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January 27 |
Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar," "Anatomy of Monotony," "Study of Two Pears" |
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January 29 |
Stevens, "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "The Worms at Heaven's Gate," "The Thought Revolved" |
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February 3 |
Stevens, "Sunday Morning" |
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February 5 |
Stevens, "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction" |
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February 10 |
Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "The River" |
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February 12 |
O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," "The Artificial Nigger," "A Circle in the Fire" |
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February 17 |
O'Connor, "Good Country People," "The Displaced Person" |
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February 19 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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February 24 |
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, chs. I-II. |
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February 26 |
Faulkner, chs. III-IV |
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March 2 |
Faulkner, chs. V-VI |
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March 4 |
Faulkner, ch. VII |
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March 9 |
Faulkner, chs. VIII-IX |
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March 11 |
Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts, pp. 1-30 |
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March 16-18 |
SPRING BREAK |
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March 23 |
West, pp. 31-end |
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March 25 |
Toni Morrison, Sula, pp. 1-48 |
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March 30 |
Morrison, pp. 49-85 |
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April 1 |
Morrison, pp. 86-137 |
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April 6 |
Morrison, pp. 138-end |
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April 8 |
Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Act One |
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April 13 |
Albee, Acts Two and Three |
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April 15 |
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, "The World's Greatest Fishermen," "Saint Marie," "Wild Geese," "The Island" |
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April 20 |
Erdrich, "The Beads," "Lulu's Boys," "The Plunge of the Brave," "Flesh and Blood" |
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April 22 |
Erdrich, "A Bridge," "The Red Convertible," "Scales," "Crown of Thorns," "Love Medicine" |
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April 27 |
Erdrich, "Resurrection," "The Good Tears," "The Tomahawk Factory," "Lyman's Luck," "Crossing the Water" |
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April 29 |
Peer editing of Research Paper |
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May 4 |
Robert Pinsky, "Ode to Meaning," "Autumn Quartet," "ABC" |
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May 6 |
Pinsky, "An Alphabet of My Dead," "The Haunted Ruin," "To Television," "Steel Drum Variations" |
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May 14 |
FINAL EXAMINATION FROM NOON TO 1:55PM |
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